Nintendo DSi gets its first flash cart

A month ago, we reported that Nintendo’s new DSi portable didn’t work with any of the current crop of flash cartridges. Things didn’t look good for homebrew. Here we are a month later and looking at the release of the Acekard 2i. It’s the first DSi compatible flash cartridge. The features appear to be identical to previous versions and we expect other manufactures will be updating their product lines in short order. You can find a video of the Acekard 2i after the break.

These carts may exist because of pirates, but we happily use them for homebrew. There are a lot of great programs out there; here’s a list of 24 apps that are dedicated to music creation. You can run Linux on it too. It’s as easy as copying a file to a flash drive. If you have a DS and aren’t using homebrew, you’re wasting it. We’ll be picking up a DSi as soon as they’re in the US (they’re region locked).

“Stop spreading FUD. Carts and modchips are for homebrewing and hardware hacking. That’s the first designed use.”

Whether or not it is the designed use, I’m sure the majority of the sales are not for the purpose of homebrew, except as a bonus. Making copyright circumvention technology available even with alternative (legitimate uses) is a gray area.

w/ regard to the above post. My mistake, yes the carts were most likely created by people who like hacking hardware who probably had homebrew as their original intended purpose. It’s less likely that they would be as popular if that were their only purpose.

Got the DSi at launch and picked up an R4i card for it and so far so good.

But … the difference between the DSi and the DS is that the DSi has upgradable firmware. Do we think that Nintendo can consign the current crop of new cards to the bin or will the card manufacturers and hackers be able to keep the cards alive through Nintendo firmware updates?

Well you know what they say, anything can be hacked…and I mean A N Y T H I N G, DSi was going to eventually fall to pirates dude I mean it was only a matter a time, I don’t blame Nintendo though, piracy does kill the industry but who cares I don’t, Nintendo has too much money anyway, and there is a plus to it….people will be buying their systems alot more than expected because of that reason so Nintendo should think twice. And yes Nintendo might release an update that will block the Acekard…which the posibillities are extremely high by the way, but that wont happen unless you stupidly connect your DSi to the internet, come on people really, why use the DSi internet when you have a perfectly good computer that can do that? don’t be lazy wow….and on a side note, Acekard team is not retarded, they monitor Nintendo’s DSi updates so if Acekard gets blocked the Acekard Team will start working on a way to bypass the new security or firmware with their own firmware so eat them apples, not that I will ever update my DSi’s firmware but you get the point, the firmware that my DSi came with since the unboxing is the firmware I’m gonna stick with, besides I don’t do multiplayer with my DSi I have a Super PC for that…and I certainly will not buy anything in the DSi shop because for me that would be called, “wasted money.” And considering….I don’t have WiFi so I can’t even enter into its internet lol, I do go to Starbucks alot but I have no worries because I turned WiFi off on my DSi so yeah…

I feel like a winner, thank you….please submit what you guys thought of my rant…laters

Look they are going about this all wrong from what i understand all hack consist of an overload so why don’t you inject a corrupted mp3 file to you music channel from the SD card you know like the twilight hack.

I have an R4 card (there is no i on it so I doubt if it is R4i), it used to work perfectly on DS lite. I recently got a DSi and tried the R4 card and also tried with the same micro SD care using SD card slot and both didn’t work.

I stupidly tried the shop and upgraded the firmware and of course it doesn’t work as well.

Where do I go from here? Do I need to buy a different card?

I believe the games should work from the SD card, but is the file structure different than that of the DS lite.